“Even though I am 100 percent owner of my company, I don’t make any significant decisions without consulting multiple people within my company,” he says.

He adds: “They see the business from a completely different perspective, which I simply can’t get.”

When you’re starting out, it makes sense that your personal life takes a back seat.

In that mad rush to get your business up and running, you might have slacked when it came to time with friends, date night with your partner, or just time for yourself.

However, once you’ve achieved a little more routine, it’s important to schedule in time for your life outside of work.

“Personal appointments have to be considered just as important (or even more important) than the work meetings you have on your book,” says Cassie Petrey of
Crowd Surf.

“When I block off a dinner with friends, a movie date with my boyfriend, a dentist appointment, attending a wedding, or anything else in my calendar, those times are completely unavailable for meetings.”

While it might be hard to follow at first, it’s great advice.

Not only will it make your life feel more balanced, but you’ll look forward to tackling work projects, instead of seeing them as a chore.

It’s a convenient, easy-to-use project management system—what’s not to love?

We’re not alone; Marcela DeVivo of
National Debt Relief
recommends it, and it’s a valuable tool in her business arsenal.

“We use Trello to track and prioritize all projects,” she says. “It provides an overview of what everyone on each team is working on and which tasks are pending.”

Not only that, you can keep track of your tasks on the go. “Trello has a smartphone app, so we can always stay up to date,” says Marcela. “And integration with Gmail enables us to send tasks from email straight to Trello.”

If I asked you what time it was, would you check your watch?

Not your smartphone—an
actual
watch.

I’ll be the first to admit, I haven’t worn a watch since I was a kid (and even then it was the colorful, gel kind—hardly a professional, polished look).

Accessible seating is reserved for guests with disabilities. Please call your Patron Services Representative at 866.276.4884 if you have not already specified needs at the time of purchase.

If there is a need for American Sign Language Interpretation (ASL) services or to make a reservation for a service animal, please contact a Patron Services Representativetwo (2) weeks prior to the performance at 214.691.7200or
customerservice@dallassummermusicals.org
.

The Dallas Summer Musicals Patron ServicesTeam is available to assist you with any on-site accessibility needs, including Assisted Listening Devices (ALD). Please contact our team at 214.691.7200,
customerservice@dallassummermusicals.org
or visit the Guest RelationsDesk in the lobby upon arrival of the performance.

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Although we don’t want to see you go, subscriptions may be cancelled and refunded in full so long as the requested is received prior to subscription packets tickets being mailed. Once mailed,each subscription is subject to a $40 per subscription cancellation fee. Tickets must accompany the refund request. Cancellation requests must be made in writing and sent to:
Dallas Summer Musicals P.O. Box 710336 Dallas, TX 75371c/o Subscriptions Manager.
Subscription cancellations and refunds may not be possible following the first subscription performance. Past shows are non-refundable.

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Stella McCartney Lewis Stars Derbys ZliJv9
,
www.Ticketmaster.com
, or the DSM Box Office, we have a record of your sales transaction and can accommodate you. Please contact your point of purchase as soon as you discover you have misplaced your ticket(s). Identification and payment verification will be needed when you pick up the tickets. If your tickets were purchased through an unauthorized ticket reseller, we cannot guarantee replacement.

Background:
Ignoring competing risks in time-to-event analyses can lead to biased risk estimates, particularly for elderly patients with multimorbidity. We aimed to demonstrate the impact of considering competing risks when estimating the cumulative incidence and risk of stroke among elderly atrial fibrillation patients.

Methods and Results:
Using linked administrative databases, we identified patients with atrial fibrillation aged ≥66 years discharged from hospital in ON, Canada between January 1, 2007, and March 31, 2011. We estimated the cumulative incidence of stroke hospitalization using the complement of the Kaplan–Meier function and the cumulative incidence function. This was repeated after stratifying the cohort by presence of prespecified comorbidities: chronic kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, or dementia. The full cohort was used to regress components of the CHADSVASc (congestive heart failure, hypertension, age, diabetes mellitus, stroke, vascular disease, sex) score on the hazard of stroke hospitalization using the Fine-Gray and Cox methods. These models were subsequently used to predict the 5-year risk of stroke hospitalization. Among 136 156 patients, the median CHADSVASc score was 4 and 84 728 patients (62.2%) had ≥1 prespecified comorbidity. The 5-year cumulative incidence of stroke was 5.4% (95% confidence interval, 5.3%–5.5%), whereas that of death without stroke was 48.8% (95% confidence interval, 48.5%–49.1%). The incidence of both events was overestimated by the Kaplan–Meier method; stroke incidence was overestimated by a relative factor of 39%. The degree of overestimation was larger among patients with non-CHADSVASc comorbidity because of higher incidence of death without stroke. The Fine-Gray model demonstrated better calibration than the Cox model, which consistently overpredicted stroke incidence.

Conclusions:
The incidence of death without stroke was 9-fold higher than that of stroke, leading to biased estimates of stroke risk with traditional time-to-event methods. Statistical methods that appropriately account for competing risks should be used to mitigate this bias.

WHAT IS KNOWN

The complement of the Kaplan–Meier survival estimate is used frequently to estimate the cumulative incidence of outcomes over time.